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CENTENNIAL CALL 



ALL NATIONS. 



BY 
MARIE A. IDEEN, 

Author of "Changing the Crosses and Winning 
THE Crown," Etc. 



OF CCA 



PHILADELPHIA 

J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO. 

1876. 



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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1876, by 

MARIE A. IDEEN, 
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 



Lippincott's Press, 
Philada. 



DEDICATION. 



TO ALL 
THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH, 
ON THIS, THE ONE HUNDREDTH ANNIVER- 
SARY OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED 
STATES OF AMERICA, THIS WORK IS HOPE- 
FULLY, TRUSTINGLY, DEDICATED, 
JULY 4, 1876. 



PREFACE. 



The nation's entire victory of religious and political 
liberty will be gained through the conquest of human 
rights. 

The temple of the human soul ; its unfolding pro- 
cess and the fruit which is to be produced thereby. 

The erection of this temple and that which consti- 
tutes the materials : 

1 . The corner-stone of this temple. 

2. The adjoining stones in the foundation. 

3. The precious stones that form the structure of this 

temple. 

4. The pillars of this temple. 

5. The tower with the timepiece. 

6. The interior of this temple. 

7. The golden key which is to unlock the mystery 

of this temple. 
To which there are seven angels, corresponding to 
the seven unfoldings of the human heart, who are in 
1* 5 



6 Preface. 

their respective places leading and guiding the human 
mind in the way it should go, so as to be properly 
trained; and joined together, one stone with another, 
to form the structure of this temple, constituting the 
grand and glorious man, who bears the impress of 
the heavenly, and is the full representative of the 
heaven above, which has become the heaven within. 
This is the great power unto salvation — the key 
that will unlock the mysterious portals of the human 
heart, and invites the glorious King to come and take 
up his abode therein. 



CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 

PAGE 

The Heavenly Government and its Laws 19 



CHAPTER II. 
The Kingdom of God coming Down in the Heart, 
FORMING Heaven and its Laws Within 26 

CHAPTER III. 
The Ministration of Angels 41 

CHAPTER IV. 
The Materials of the Temple, with the Cor- 
ner-stone 56 

CHAPTER V. 
The Building of this Temple, and who are the 
Laborers 61 

7 



8 Contents, 

CHAPTER VI. 

PAGB 

How THE Kingdom of God is to become the 
Universal Kingdom upon the Earth 72 

CHAPTER VII. 
The Builders and the Structure of this 
Temple 77 

CHAPTER VIII. 

The Corner-stone and the cementing together 
OF THESE Precious Stones which form this 
Temple 89 

CHAPTER IX. 

The Golden Key which is to Unlock the Mys- 
tery OF THE Inner Glory of this Temple and 
reveal the sanctuary of the heart.. with the 
Offerings produced from the " Tree of Life 
THAT Bears Twelve Manner of Fruit, and the 
Leaves are for the Healing of the Nations " 96 

CHAPTER X. 
Gathering in the Harvest 115 



INTRODUCTION. 



A S on this 4th day of July, 1876, we cele- 
^ -^ brate the one hundredth anniversary of 
the religious and political independence of 
this land, we ask the nations represented, 
What came ye here to see ? and what are the 
Centennial offerings you bring to this .land of 
liberty? 

Surely you are arrayed in costly apparel as 
nations of every clime, and in your products 
show you possess all that can adorn earthly 
kingdoms in their splendor. 

Then the question is, What brought you 
to this distant land and over the sea ? Was 
it to see the New World, as it is called ? or 
came ye expecting to find a government con- 
secrated to the services of the most high 
God and ruled by his heavenly law of love ? 



10 Introduction, 

or is it a mere consideration of merchandise 
display, together with your honored presence 
and the delight it affords you in showing to 
this nation the beauty and grandeur of the 
products of your own as you bring forth 
these Centennial offerings to adorn the altar 
of American liberty ? 

The nations are invited hither to bring in 
their offerings and display their glory on the 
altar of Liberty. But oh, do we realize of 
what this altar consists, and what ought to 
be its precious gifts in response to these Cen- 
tennial offerings which are lavished as an 
honor to the celebration of this day ? 

This anjiiversary^ viewed from a prophetic 
standpoint, is the emblem of the liberty of all 
the nations that eventually shall bow before 
the shrine of the Goddess of Liberty as she 
waves her banner of love, freedom and inde- 
pendence over all the nations of the earth. 
In tranquil serenity she sits enthroned till she 
can shelter each and every nation under the 
folds of her banner. 



Introduction, 1 1 

O thou mother of Liberty! When will 
thy sons and daughters of the earth recog- 
nize thee as the mother to whom all nations 
shall pay homage ? 

And as thou sittest on thy throne with thy 
sceptre, calling for justice in the palace, jus- 
tice in the cottage, be it king, queen or peas- 
ant, let the call go forth to the uttermost 
parts of the earth. Calling for noble heroes^ 
who are to be the royal standard-bearers of 
the ark of the kingdom of God, which is 
love, humility, charity, freedom, liberty with- 
out end, — this is the celebration in which we 
ought to partake on this anniversary of 
American independence. 

Thy sons and daughters, America, are 
adorned with Liberty's mantle, and in her 
folds we read of the glorious institutions of 
America's beloved land. 

Her heroes have fought in the past for 
freedom and liberty, and her soil is inhabited 
with many sons and daughters of other na- 
tions, to whom this nation pays homage of 



1 2 Introduction. 

love and kindred affection. And as the ocean 
rocked on its bosom these sons and daugh- 
ters of other cHmes to our shores, they are 
welcome, and a thousand times welcome 
again and again. And as the flags of another 
country hail us at these ports we realize that 
sacred union of love which we hold to each 
other in our God as his children, constituting 
the great family of our heavenly Father. 

Through the independence of this anniver- 
sary which we celebrate religious and political 
liberty was gained ; and we cherish the 
event, hoping that it may make every heart 
loyal and true to carry its mission to every 
foreign shore, till we all be of one mind in all 
that shall unloosen the chains of oppression 
and slavery everywhere. And the whole 
earth shall unite together in one harmonious 
chorus of freedom and liberty on the whole 
of God's footstool, that wherever the high 
and holy Majesty treads unobserved among 
his children he can find hearts of true loyalty 
that have consecrated themselves to serve 



Introduction. 13 

him with might and strength, and can wor- 
ship in spirit as the Lord of all. 

When the nations unite in harmony, wor- 
shiping the Father, and can bear true testi- 
mony daily to each other to that effect and 
study each other's welfare, then a new star 
will arise on the horizon of destiny of the 
New World, which shall be called the star of 
love. This love-star cannot be overshad- 
owed by the Sun of righteousness, for it is 
risen with glory in its beams and cannot 
darken the earth any more, as it will be a 
beacon-light which will direct them to look 
to the Lord that they all may know him for 
themselves. 

And then truly we can realize that we have 
entered into a new covenant with the Lord, 
according as we read in Heb. viii. 10, 11 : ** I 
will put my laws into their mind, and write 
them in their hearts : and I will be to them a 
God, and they shall be to me a people. 

** And they shall not teach every man his 
neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, 



14 Introduction, 

Know the Lord ; for all shall know me, from 
the least to the greatest.'' 

Thus the nations shall be united in all that 
pertains to their peace and happiness for life 
and eternity. And the white dove, the har- 
binger of peace, shall spread her wings over 
the whole earth, till every nation shall feel 
her peaceful influence and be sheltered under 
her wings. 

Then no more wars or rumors of wars, but 
all tranquil serenity shall reign through the 
earth, because peace is gained and every 
heart is serving the great God in love to him 
and love to the neighbor. 

Then the kingdom of heaven is com- 
menced upon the earth, and the reign of our 
God, and his Christ is the God to whom we 
are to bow. Then all this man-made wor- 
ship shall be swallowed up in nothingness, 
because the Lord of hosts is known to his 
people, and they shall know him for them- 
selves, great and small, as a child knoweth its 
mother. 



Introduction, 1 5 

This is the millennium power that shall visit 
the earth, and all shall feel its glorious swell 
within their souls, as though the Lord had 
risen within, prepared his temple where he 
can sit enthroned in the human heart, giving 
out its laws of holiness and justice to every 
man. 

O Freedom, thou monarch of thyself! 
how pleasant are thy domains ! — no one fet- 
tered within thy palace, no one held in chains 
of oppression within or without. No one 
comes to thee armed with worldly weapon, 
desiring to make war on thy peaceful habita- 
tion. All is silent within and without. 

Neither do rumors of war disturb thy 
peaceful habitation ; the Lord reigneth there, 
because every child of earth is born free, 
religiously and politically. 

And these jars that we have at present, and 
are subject to in Church and State, are the 
products of man*s uncultivated state of mind, 
and his non-religious unfolding. This ac- 
counts for the present state of affairs, and that 



1 6 Introduction. 

we do not know our heavenly Father's will, 
nor of his doctrine that comes with an accom- 
panying power to will and to do his most holy 
will. 

Consequently, we do not become imbued 
with that pure teaching of the Nazarene, our 
beloved Brother, our Master and Teacher, 
Jesus Christ. 

He came and fulfilled his " Father's will,'* 
and left that legacy for us to follow his exam- 
ple. To go among the lowly, the oppressed 
and the forsaken, who were left without any 
earthly guide who could lead them heaven- 
ward — to such he ministered and whispered 
words of consolation and comfort. And he 
expects us now, who are left living represen- 
tatives of his teaching and example, to do 
the same as he did ; for this he was sent, that 
the whole earth should thereby enter into 
perfect unity with the Father through him, so 
that they both could come and take up their 
ibode in our hearts by their spirit-essence. 

O traveler of earth! stop with me for a 



Introduction, 17 

moment and commence to realize your high 
and holy calling ere it be too late and the 
door of mercy is shut to your view, and you 
will find yourself shut out from this glorious 
kingdom of God, whose name is known by 
the pure and holy in heart, who are willing 
to serve God at any cost and establish peace, 
justice and holiness on earth. 

Such man or woman who lives daily to 
inhabit this kingdom shall feel peace within 
her borders. No enemy can approach, be- 
cause it is written on its walls, Peace, peace 
in the palace, peace in the cottage. The 
king, queen and peasant have become 
united in the love of God, and they study 
each other's welfare and interest. 

Thus swells the bosom with the love of 
God; for the principle of love, ultimated in 
living acts to each other, is so great that God 
on his throne cannot but feel the pulsation 
of love and holy adoration that ascends from 
his children, which has prepared them to 
serve him. 

2* B 



1 8 Introductio7t, 

Thus this earth is to become the kingdom 
of God and his saints, as it is in heaven. 

And they shall reign without end until the 
most perfect day, when he shall gather up 
his jew^els to adorn his heavenly kingdom, 
which is a world without end. 

Then no sorrow of. earth, no sin or corrup- 
tion, can penetrate their bosoms, but all shall 
dwell in one harmonious peace for ever. 



A CENTENNIAL CALL 

TO ALL NATIONS. 



CHAPTER I. 

The Heavenly Government and its Law, 

*' The seven spirits of God sent forth into all the earth/' 
— Revelation v. 6. 

'^ I ^HESE seven spirits are proceeding from 
^ the throne and the Lamb, and constitute 
the great ambassadors sent forth from the 
royal throne of heaven into the kingdoms 
and the churches of the whole earth. 

Therefore let us give heed to what these 
spirits say unto the churches and the king- 
doms of the earth. 

Put on thy mantle of charity, thou daugh- 
ter of Zion ; prepare to meet thy God and re- 

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20 A Centennial Call 

ceive his holy ambassadors, who are sent from 
his royal kingdom to deliver the message 
given in charge from the great King to all 
nations, kindreds and tongues, which are to be 
assembled before his throne. 

Adorn thyself, O Zion ! in beauty and holi- 
ness; for the day has come when through 
these great spirits you are to be summoned to 
judgment. And how is it? Are you ready 
to meet your God and to be arrayed in white, 
unspotted garments ? Are your works ready 
to be tried in the fire and come out like fine 
gold to the Master's glory, that you indeed 
can realize that you have accepted the invita- 
tion to come unto Jesus and buy gold of him, 
as we read in Rev. iii. i8 : "I counsel thee to 
buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou 
mayest be rich ; and white raiment, that thou 
mayest be clothed; and that the shame of thy 
nakedness do not appear ; and anoint thine 
eyes with eye-salve that thou mayest see " ? 

O sons and daughters of the most high 
God ! " the day cometh that shall burn as an 



To all Nations, 21 

oven." As we read in Malachi iv. I : " And 
all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, 
shall be stubble : and the day that cometh 
shall burn them up," and leave nothing but 
the purified gold that is to adorn this king- 
dom of our Lord and his saints. 

This burning process is not literal fire, as 
some may suppose. It is the burning of the 
baptismal fire of the Holy Ghost on the 
hearts of the children of men unto repent- 
ance. As we find written in the words of 
Matthew, iii. 1 1, 12: ** He shall baptize you 
with the Holy Ghost, and with fire. And he 
will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather 
his wheat into the garner; but he will burn 
up the chaff with unquenchable fire." 

We are on the borders of the revealment of 
the book of Revelation, when we shall realize 
its precious truth and its glorious mysteries. 
But there must be a falling away first before 
its glory can be revealed upon the earth. 

O earth ! where are thy sons and daughters 
to-day who are to be prepared for the Lord 



22 A Centennial Call 

of hosts as he rides on the clouds of heaven, 
sending down his wrath upon those who will 
not hear his voice and make ready the earth 
for his reign, so as to establish the kingdom 
of heaven on this earth ? 

And be ready, as we read in Rev. xxi., to 
receive the *'New Jerusalem coming down 
from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride 
for her husband." And be able to realize the 
truth bf the '' great voice out of heaven" that 
spake to John, '' saying, Behold the tabernacle 
of God is with men, and he will dwell with 
them, and they shall be his people, and God 
himself shall be with them, and be their 
God." 

We are told at the beginning of this work 
that we are to enter into a new covenant with 
the Lord, and this covenant is established in 
the heavens and cometh dow^n in the New 
Jerusalem. And as we find it illustrated 
again in the words of Heb. viii. lO : '' For this 
is the covenant that I will make with the 
house of Israel after those days, saith the 



To all Nations, 23 

Lord : I will put my laws into their mind, and 
write them in their hearts." 

The time is now here when Jehovah God 
has a demand for such a people as will reign 
in justice and righteousness under the govern- 
ment of heaven and carry out its laws and 
have them established on the earth. 

Then first can we realize the meaning of 
the words, "the lion and the Iamb shall lie 
down together.'* For the unjust will learn 
of the more just, and they will walk together, 
learning the laws of the Lord, and having 
them established in their minds and ultimated 
in their acts. Love, joy, peace in the Holy 
Ghost, shall then be felt in the earth ; for the 
spirit of Truth can lead her children in ways 
of pleasantness and peace, and no one shall 
say to another. Learn to know the Lord, for 
all shall know him for themselves ; when we 
have his laws in our hearts, we can walk in 
his statutes. 

Then this will be the law of the govern- 
ment of the whole earth — that each one 



24 A Centennial Call 

will study his neighbor's interest and shed 
abroad that principle of love to our fellow- 
man, that law of love and justice, we are all 
to be judged by. 

Thus we are to establish the kingdom of 
heaven upon earth, and each one who will 
serve under the laws of this heavenly regent 
shall receive the impress of the redeemed on 
their foreheads, which shall be a bright dia- 
dem sparkling with diamonds in letters of 
eternal love and glory of our God. 

Nations, to this end and for this purpose 
you were born. Oh, commence to realize 
your high and holy calling ere it be too late, 
and this earthly kingdom, that ought to shine 
in glory and peace in the Lord, is vacant of 
his presence, and his voice of approval is not 
heard in her courts. 

O traveler! remember you are account- 
able for the light that is guiding you. If 
you follow out the new commandment of the 
Master that he gave, " Love one another,'' 
and likewise as we read from the words of 



To all Nations. 25 

James, which bear the same impress, ii. 8, 
*' If ye fulfill the royal law according to the 
scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as 
thyself, ye do well." 

This is the standard of the law of the 
kingdom of heaven that must be established 
on this earth before it can be called the king- 
dom of God and Christ in spirit, in his sec- 
ond coming, can reign supreme on this earth. 



26 A Centennial Call 



CHAPTER II. 

The Kingdom of God coming doitm in the Hearty 
fo7'ming Heaven and its Laws within, 

'"T^O gain this kingdom upon the earth and 
■^ have its laws estabhshed here we must 
be soldiers of the cross. Nothing can be 
gained either of a temporal or spiritual 
character except we are willing to exert our- 
selves and make sacrifices. So to win this 
kingdom that many pray for daily, "Thy 
kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as 
it is in heaven," we have to be soldiers that 
bear the cross after Christ; we could not be 
the subjects of the King of heaven except we 
follow the commands of the great King and 
follow in the footsteps of his beloved Son, 
the Captain of the Christian army. 

This call has gone out to the whole earth 



To all Nations. 27 

1876 years ago, and we must be obedient to 
this call. We cannot be the royal standard- 
bearers of the ark of the kingdom of God 
except we follow out the great commands 
that were given us through the Master. His 
government is peace, and as we live in this 
command that he set forth there will be true 
justice established, a kingdom of peace and 
reign of righteousness. 

We are called upon to make this earth the 
kingdom of our God, that he can reign in 
might and power through his saints. 

Then will come the jubilee of earth, when 
all nations blend together in one glorious 
harmony, and each shall esteem others better 
than themselves, and the holy and pure gos- 
pel of Christ will rule the hearts of men, and 
they shall be of one mind in Christ. 

No fraud, no deception, but all shall carry 
out the law of God, which shall be the ruling 
element of their being, and each and every 
one shall study his neighbor's welfare as his 
own. Then the high and holy Majesty can 



28 A Centennial Call 

reign in the hearts of his people to will and 
to do when they will serve him '' in new- 
ness of the spirit, and not in the oldness of 
the letter." 

Then each day we live we look to the 
heavenly King for knowledge in all our af- 
fairs — how to guide and rule so as to please 
him all our days. 

When the human heart can be in this state, 
that our life is consecrated to God and we live 
daily and hourly under the inspiration of 
God, then we can learn wisdom's ways, and 
Church and State will go on triumphantly 
under the monarchy of Heaven, which is the 
teaching of the Master and those who are 
sent to bear witness to his teaching, as we 
read in John xv. 26 : *' Even the Spirit of 
truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he 
shall testify of me." This is the Spirit that 
Christ said should come after he departed. 

The testifying of this Spirit of truth to us, 
as it is in Christ, comes to us through angel 
ministration, and as we find in Heb. i. 14: 



To all Nations, 29 

"Are they not all ministering spirits, sent 
forth to minister to them that shall be heirs 
of salvation ?" If these spirits did not pro- 
ceed from God, and were not armed with the 
everlasting gospel of truth, how could they 
be entrusted with the charge to minister to 
those who should '' be heirs of salvation" ? 
If we can receive and comprehend those who 
are sent to minister unto us, we are then liv- 
ing in rapport with the heavens, and through 
these means the kingdom of heaven will be 
established on earth. 

That is to say, each human heart must be 
prepared to have this ** kingdom within," as 
Christ taught, and that can only be by hav- 
ing the laws of heaven come down in the 
heart and become ultimated in our lives. 

And to have this accomplished it requires 
us to daily give up that which corrupts soul 
and body and put on Christ. Which is to ob- 
serve what the word teaches in Rev. iii. 26 : 
*' Behold, I stand at the door, and knock : if 

any man hear my voice, and open the door, 

3 * 



30 A Centennial Call 

I will come in to him, and will sup with him, 
and he with me." 

Thus we will be one with- Christ and the 
Father, as in John xvii. 21 : ''That they all 
may be one ; as thou. Father, art in me, and 
I in thee, that they also may be one in us." 

The heart of man is the type on earth of 
the heavenly throne. If God and Christ are 
to take up their abode therein, there must be 
a throne there also from which these heav- 
enly guests give out their laws. 

How can this be comprehended and made 
clear to the mind ? Let us meditate for a 
moment how he can reign in these hearts of 
ours. 

First, when the heart is made willing to be 
adorned with the teaching of Christ, not to 
deceive ourselves, thinking, by believing in 
Christ and his teaching (not ultimating it in 
acts), that that is all to form a heaven within. 
No, my friends ; that is only intellect work and 
a delusion to the Christian, as no work of 
redemption can commence to take place till 



To all Nations, 31 

we put on the attire of Christ as faithful sol- 
diers of the great King of heaven and of 
earth. 

If it were not a fight, we could not be called 
soldiers of the cross. 

But now, to be followers in the ranks and 
listen to the call of the Captain, we must be 
under the law of the kingdom of heaven to 
be able to gain the day. And as we can 
accept its laws and make them effectual in 
our hearts, we shall realize its power, and 
thus the army will be marching forward in 
the Lord of hosts to conquer all that is 
abomination against his kingdom. 

These abominations that are against the 
Lord's kingdom are the evils that exist in 
the human heart and ultimate themselves in 
evil deeds and false doctrines, contrary to 
Christ's pure teaching of love to the neighbor 
and holiness unto God. This is more or less 
prevalent while man is in his natural and un- 
developed state. Therefore, before it can de- 
velop and ultimate that which is good in 



32 A Centennial Call 

the sight of God, it must be born anew, as 
Christ said to Nicodemus, John iii. 3 : *' Ex- 
cept a man be born again, he cannot see the 
kingdom of God." 

Now, in order to be able to see this king- 
dom of God and have it estabHshed in the 
heart, it is necessary to be born again and 
have those heavenly guests come and take up 
their abode, reign and rule there supremely. 
This, then, is the meaning of this kingdom of 
which Christ spoke to the people, as we read 
in Luke xvii. 20, 21 : **When being asked 
by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God 
should come, he answered them and said. 
The kingdom of God cometh not with obser- 
vation." *' Neither shall they say, Lo here ! 
or lo there ! for behold the kingdom of God 
is within you." 

Now, we perceive, according to this state- 
ment and teaching of our Master, this king- 
dom that the faithful soldier of the cross is to 
fight for is not a kingdom of a golden city 
that is coming down from above that so 



To all Nations. 33 

many look for at the present time, nor is it a 
fight with swords to gain the victory of this 
kingdom, although the forces that are in 
the world would often command the Chris- 
tian soldier, against his wishes, to follow the 
command of the voice of the world, when 
to him it would be far more desirable to fight 
for the kingdom as Christ taught, which 
would be with peace, love and justice in the 
Holy Ghost. 

Now, this kingdom must be established on 
the earth and be governed by the laws of 
heaven, and nothing will be changed in 
nature through the descent of this kingdom 
save the evils of the human heart, which will 
produce instead good and noble deeds. 

Some think and expect at this present 
time that this foretold kingdom is coming 
down from above in the shape of a golden 
city, with Christ and his holy angels in it, 
descending partly to the earth, till they that 
died in this faith are resurrected, and they, 
together with those still living, who believed 



34 ^^ Centennial Call 

this advent doctrine of the coming of a Hteral 
golden city, are caught up a short distance. 
Then they, with the saints, are to behold the 
other remnant of the dead who are to be resur- 
rected. And the rest of the living which are 
out of this faith and considered the damned 
because they did not believe in this literal 
coming must be burned up and annihilated 
for ever, this earth then being destroyed 
through the burning of literal fire. 

After this burning process has taken place, 
and this beautiful world, with those in it who 
did not die in the faith, are consumed, then 
those who believe in this doctrine and are 
already secured by believing that the Son of 
man comes in his glory on this fashion to 
redeem those who, by a faith without works, 
are already caught up, having been looking 
on the burning of this world and all that is 
in it. 

Then the few out of many, together Avith 
the angels, descending entirely on the earth 
and resting themselves in the golden city, 



To all Nations, 35 

which would, according to the theory, be rest- 
ing on the ashes of their loved ones who per- 
ished through disobedience to this self-made 
doctrine or from lack of a right understanding 
of the Scriptures. Thus, according to advent 
doctrine and their calculations, this is to 
take place, and is expected every day and 
hour. 

No, my beloved friends; this will never 
take place, because, as we have read in past 
pages of this work, when the Pharisees de- 
manded of Christ to know when the kingdom 
of God should come, what did Christ answer 
them ? Let us read it over again that we 
may not forget. Luke xvii. 20, 21 : **The 
kingdom of God cometh not with observa- 
tion ; for behold the kingdom of God is 
within you." 

These are the sayings of our beloved 
Master and Teacher, and we must give heed 
to this saying, as it throws great light on this 
subject. 

No ; this kingdom will not change the bios- 



36 A Centennial Call 

soms that are growing, the trees, the vegeta- 
tion, nor anything that is for our sustenance, 
neither anything in nature. Its beauty will 
be the same, the fishes in the sea the same ; 
the animals will be more lamblike in charac- 
ter, as we read in the words of Isaiah xi. 6 : 
*' The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and 
the leopard shall lie down with the kid ; and 
the calf and the young lion and the fatling 
together; and a little child shall lead them." 

This, we are told, shall take place when the 
millennium is come and the kingdom of God 
is established on earth as it is in heaven 
above. 

Dear readers, we will now come to that 
which produces this miraculous change on 
earth, that it can be properly said the king- 
dom of heaven is come upon the earth. 

All that we have mentioned which is not 
to undergo any change will continue as de- 
scribed because it is complete in perfection, 
except the furious animals; they are also 
complete as far as the animal condition is con- 



To all Nations, 37 

cerned, and are only true representatives of 
man in his natural, sensual and carnal state. 

And note, as man is the only one in whom 
this kingdom is to be manifested, his heart 
must undergo the change of regeneration, 
which is to put on Christ and having the laws 
of heaven formed within, that he daily and 
hourly can say he doth not live to self nor 
study self-interest wholly, but that which 
pertains to the neighbor's interest. 

Then, as we have the words of Jesus in 
Matt. xix. 28 : " That ye which have followed 
me in the regeneration, when the Son of man 
shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye shall 
sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve 
tribes of Israel." 

Oh, if these are to be the thoughts, the de- 
sires and the fruits of the human heart, what 
do we need more to have heaven formed within ? 

Then, indeed, when the heart is in this 
state, we will not be looking up for '' the king- 
dom of God 'to come' with observation," 
for it is already come ** within" to those who 



38 A Centennial Call 

are in a fit and prepared state to receive its 
laws and its ministrations. 

And then the very animals will feel the in- 
fluence of this holy love that beams forth in 
all human acts and conversations, and thus 
they will be tamed through our kindness and 
affection. 

We shall then perceive that we will not 
only be able to tame each other through the 
love of Christ, but everything that comes un- 
der our care will feel its holy and vibrating 
influence. 

Then first this loving gospel of Christ will 
be preached right on the earth, and the words 
realized as he said, *' Preach the gospel to 
every creature.'* 

We always notice that a cruel, unregenerate 
man is cruel to his beast. And when the 
new birth of Jesus takes place in the heart 
and heaven commences to be formed within, 
there will be new affections, different loves, 
more charity, more forbearance, more love, 
kinder and truer judgment, more wisdom, 



To all Nations. 39 

and the things that were before which be- 
longed to the natural man will have passed 
away, and a new heaven and a new earth will 
be formed within the soul where dwelleth 
righteousness and peace in the Holy Ghost, 
and all things will be subject unto this power. 

This will be the regenerative element that 
forms the kingdom of heaven within every 
human heart. 

But there must be a doing away first of 
the evils in man's unregenerate heart before 
these things can take olace, and that will be 
when man is willing to give up his carnal 
desires, his vile appetites, his ruling love of 
evil, and put on Christ and become a new 
creature unto God instead of serving the 
world, self and corruption, and can shine in 
the glory of God as the stars in the firma- 
ment, that each one he comes in contact with, 
be it man or beast, will realize its glory and 
perceive that man is changed and has become 
a new creature through the love element that 
is shed abroad from heaven within his breast. 



40 A Centennial Call 

This, my dear reader, is the second coming 
of Christ to reign in the hearts of his people, 
and thus his teaching has become effectual in 
our hearts. And he is then, as we read in 
the word, ** He shall come to be glorified in 
his saints." 

'* Lift up your heads, O ye gates ; and be 
ye lift up, ye everlasting doors, and let the 
king of glory come in." And prepare the 
feast of love, that he with the fullness of the 
Father may be able to shed abroad the de- 
light of heaven in your heart till you become 
so in rapport with the heavenly and divine 
that your life can blend perfectly with Christ 
and the redeemed to do your Father*s will in 
all that pertains to your duties now and here- 
after, when you are to enter the realms of 
the redeemed who have put on the robes of 
righteousness and walk no more after the 
lust of the flesh, but after the spirit, and have 
become ministering spirits to that effect to 
those who yet sit in darkness and the shadow 
of death and cannot see light. 



To all Nations, 41 



CHAPTER III. 

The Ministration of Angels, 

'nr^HESE ** ministering spirits '* come and 
^ bear witness of the teaching of Christ. 
They are with us while we Hve on the earth 
plane, and are our teachers, our guides and 
protectors ; and they are bringing this teach- 
ing to bear, that Christ " came to seek and to 
save that which was lost." And by his labor 
of love and example we shall be benefited if 
we adopt them in our lives. 

Thus they become our instructors in all 
that pertains to our salvation. As we men- 
tioned in Heb. i. 14, '' Are they not all minis- 
tering spirits sent forth to minister for them 
who shall be heirs of salvation ?" And in the 
following chapter, ii. 3, *' How shall we es- 
cape if we neglect so great salvation ?" 
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42 A Centennial Call 

My dear friends, it is time we commence to 
realize angel visitations from Bible authority 
if we have no other knowledge of its ex- 
istence. 

To be Bible Christians it is necessary that we 
should be acquainted with the truth that it 
contains in regard to those things revealed 
on its precious pages. 

We cannot part with the dearest we pos- 
sess, which is the knowledge of Christ and 
the holy ministration which it brings to us on 
its pages. And to be well conversant with 
our privileges and the knowledge we are to 
receive therefrom, it is necessary to do as 
Christ bids us : " Search the scriptures : they 
are they which testify of me.'* 

We are to be prudent in our investigations 
and not to listen to outside judgment, but 
to judge for ourselves and listen to that voice 
which said, I will never leave you nor for- 
sake you, but be with you to the end. 

Dear reader, it is pleasant to think that if 
the whole world forsake us we have friends 



To all Nations, 43 

on the other side who feel for us, love us 
with all the care and tenderness they be- 
stowed upon us in life, and more, because a 
mother who has passed away cannot forget 
her child, but she lingers around it with the 
same watchful care, and a child or compan- 
ion who has gone before lingers around the 
family fold as of yore, although unseen by the 
loved ones, except in some instances where 
they have the gift of *^ discerning spirits/' 
They are present with us, and have become 
ministering spirits of love and guidance to 
those left behind, following their loved ones 
with a watchful care till they have crossed 
the dark river, and then bring them over to 
the land of rest to live with them in endless 
unity. 

This no doubt seems to many impossible, 
but nevertheless it is a fact. The child lingers 
around its mother still and nestles in her lov- 
ing embrace. The loving companion is not 
separated from the loved one. No ; the chain 
is only broken for a while, but as one link is 



44 ^ Centennial Call 

parting after another it only goes to make up 
that eternal chain of harmony and love that 
reunites one link with another again till all 
the severed links can form one harmonious 
chain that never shall be broken, but cement- 
ed for ever in love and heavenly affection 
through life and eternity. 

This is pleasant to think of, that while we 
live in this body our departed loved ones care 
for us, linger around us and do all they can 
to help, comfort and console us with their 
prayers and wisdom in all that pertains to 
our temporal and spiritual welfare. 

Life indeed would be dreary to many of us 
did we not realize this to be a fact. All 
would seem like a grave, as it does to those 
who have no knowledge or experience of 
these things. 

We must not, however, receive all things 
that come to us from this source as truth. 
For often there are evil and untruthful spirits, 
as we have it confirmed in the words of 
Mark xiii. 22: *'For false Christs and false 



To all Nations. 45 

prophets shall arise, and shall show signs and 
wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even 
the elect." But we must do as we are taught 
through the word : " Believe not every spirit, 
but try the spirits whether they are of God." 
And "prove all things, hold fast to that 
which is good." 

Christ had angels that ministered unto him, 
and in his greatest agony in the garden they 
were of the greatest comfort to him, and 
more than any earthly aid could have been. 

These angels see and know our sorrows 
and can enter more fully into our affections 
than earthly mortals ; if not, they would be 
illy qualified to minister to us in our temporal 
and spiritual wants. 

As we read in the word, ''joy shall be in 
heaven over one sinner that repenteth," may 
we not fail to realize that those angels are 
keeping a strict watch over all our doings, 
and that they are continually on missions 
of love to the sinner, the downtrodden and 
oppressed of earth everywhere ! 



46 A Centennial Call 

This angel ministration — oh how it soothes 
the soul and how it reveals the love of God, 
who has provided this heavenly ministration 
for our guide and comfort ! 

With much energy of mind we ought to 
receive them, feeling that they are the ones 
who shall reveal to us the things that belong 
to our salvation and minister unto us of the 
great things that are contained in the heav- 
enly storehouse. 

We must be in a prepared state to receive 
them as they come on their holy and loving 
mission to us, daily instructing us with pa- 
tience and love to overcome all evil, till at last 
they can sit with us in sweet delight, listening 
to the truth delivered by us unto others as we 
have previously been instructed by them. 

It is necessary to recognize this ; for if we 
realize their presence and that the Bible is 
true on this subject of angel ministration, 
how can we attempt to doubt its reality at the 
present when we believe it existed in the dark 
ages of the past, and when we have living 



To all Nations. 47 

witnesses daily from the same source of their 
present ministrations? 

May we be so imbued with the spirit of love 
and truth that the holy ministering angels can 
come and go, bringing us true consolation from 
above and comforting us with their words ! 

The Master of the house cometh unexpect- 
edly as a thief in the night, and be ye ready 
to follow him ; for the hour is coming, and now 
is, when we are to be prepared to follow where- 
soever we are led. 

His ministering angels are sent to you to 
bid you prepare for his coming. When he 
shall sit and feast with you in the tabernacle 
of your soul, and your soul can become an 
altar of sacrifice to God, and you can lay aside 
every evil love and every besetting sin and 
selfishness, and are willing to become pure, 
then this altar is guarded by pure and holy 
angels who will help you to prepare this 
chamber of the heart for this bridegroom, 
whose coming is, as we read in Rev. iii. 3, 
*' Remember therefore how thou hast received 



48 A Centennial Call 

and heard, and hold fast and repent. If there- 
fore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee 
as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour 
I will come upon thee." 

Oh, watch ye, Zion ! for in the winter's blast 
we often feel the spring breezes ; and thus it 
is with the royal King. He is coming, you 
think, in times of pleasantness, when the time 
and season of harvest is ripe, but I say he is 
coming when least expected. 

And to those who will hear I *' say, Come," 
for all things are now ready. The King is 
coming who is to make war with the powers 
of darkness. A city is to be taken, a kingdom 
to be established in its place, and the weapons 
of this kingdom are to fight for justice and 
liberty, and holiness shall be the sign. 

Free from oppression, thus shall this army 
of the Lord march onward, leaving no stone 
unturned till they get the whole dominion of 
earth under their rule and government. 

But this cannot be done without a struggle, 
and all the hosts of darkness will rise up in 



To all Nations. 49 

opposition to the laws of this kingdom. The 
Holy Ghost shall rule this kingdom. No 
monarch on his throne who cannot give out 
justice and righteousness in the Holy Ghost 
can continue. 

Man and woman will then have to join 
hand in hand in the work of redemption, and 
the downtrodden, criminals of every kind, 
will be properly cared for and raised up to 
their true position of man and womanhood. 

No sin will be laid at the door of the fe- 
male without judging the man the same. If 
he is the cause of her ruin, he must pay the 
penalty, according to the law of justice, and 
this law of justice wmU go out in the whole 
earth and baptize each one with a purity of 
heart and lead them to follow in the road 
that leads heavenward. 

Thus the young and old of both sexes must 
go in unison redeeming the downtrodden 
and beckon them to come up higher and 
higher. 

And as they advance in the scale of pro- 



50 A Centermial Call 

gression we must help and forbear with each 
other, feehng that we are the stewards of the 
household of God; and if we have the love 
of God in the heart, we can mount as on 
eagle's wings on high whenever we choose 
and ask for knowledge. The word teaches, 
" If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of 
God.'^ 

This is our privilege ; and knowing there is 
One who is touched with our infirmities, we 
can come to him hourly and daily not desir- 
ing anything save that which pertains to our 
building up of purity and holiness. Then 
our Father will smile upon us, and his voice 
of approval will be our strength, as we are 
going through the pathway of life. 

Oh that we may so live that we can enter 
into this state and be able to give every at- 
tention to do the will of our heavenly Father ! 
Then a silent and serene peace shall reign in 
the kingdom within the heart if we ultimate 
the love of God. 

But while there is so much wickedness 



To all Nations, 51 

going on on all sides in the world, it is 
almost impossible to feel fully that rest and 
peace which is given to the Christian heart. 
A mother is not at ease when her children 
are going astray and displeasing her daily, 
and so it is with the mother of Zion. She 
cannot feel that serene and tranquil rest while 
her children are going astray after strange 
gods. 

Oh that we all may realize that in this 
kingdom which is to be established upon this 
earth there must be unity of interest among 
the subjects ! And one must not say. This is 
mine inheritance and that is thine — that is to 
say, one subject holding thousands and mil- 
lions in his grasp, while others have nothing, 
and often through hard labor, if able to do it, 
cannot obtain the proper sustenance of life. 

Let us remember that the dear Lord who 
gave this earth to his subjects intended that 
they should do with it as should be pleasing 
in his sight, which is to care for each other, 
and he that is the Lord of heaven and of 



52 A Centennial Call 

earth will reward eventually all according to 
their works. 

Christ it was who came from the Father 
with the royal command to earth that we 
should " love one another." He was the 
greatest one who ever lived on this earth 
who preached and lived the doctrine he 
preached. He was not only a mouthpiece 
of God, but as he said, " I have glorified thee 
on the earth, I have finished the work which 
thou gavest me to do." 

When we can be imbued with this spirit of 
Christ, we will love the truth for the uses 
which can be ultimated therefrom. 

Christ was the bright and morning star. 
It was the emblematical star of him which 
shone on the firmament in the night, direct- 
ing the shepherds to Bethlehem, where lay 
the great ambassador who came from heaven 
with the royal message which was to be the 
great light of the nations, guiding them in 
the true path to find the way that leadeth 
unto life and immortality. 



To all Nations. 53 

Yes, this star shone in the dark night to 
guide the shepherds. Would to God we all 
could look up and learn from whence com- 
eth our help ! Then surely we should all be 
guided by that morning star, our beloved 
Master. 

But some will say. How can we be guided 
as the shepherds were to Bethlehem ? Be- 
loved, this star was to show them that in the 
stable over which this star rested lay the in- 
carnate element of love to man. And he 
was sent for our redemption in obscure birth 
as our teacher to show unto us that it is not 
necessary to be high or possess influence to 
be followers of him. 

We are taught through his exemplary life 
what is required of us as Christians and fol- 
lowers of that blessed lamb of God. And 
through his teaching and example we must 
look for this star to guide us till his image 
of love permeates our hearts and we can 
blend with the beautiful innocence and love 

of the babe in Bethlehem. 
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54 A Centennial Call 

O ye nations ! wake up and gird yourselves 
with gospel light and truth, so that this im- 
maculate love which was sent to earth shall 
not have suffered in vain as your example. 

You cannot possibly for a moment say 
that you do not know or cannot perceive how 
you are to carry out this gospel of Christ 
Do as he said and did : ** If you love me 
keep my commandments.'* His command- 
ment was to '* love one another/' which love 
must be carried out according to the words 
in Matt. vii. 12: *' Therefore all things what- 
soever ye would that men should do to you, 
do ye even so to them; for this is the law 
and the prophets." 

Beloved, hear ye the gospel trumpet call- 
ing you to order in the ranks. The Lord 
has his chosen leaders; hear ye them and 
give heed to the call. If we give heed to 
this call and will find the new-born babe in 
its swaddling-clothes in the manger of Beth- 
lehem, then let us open the Scripture con- 
cerning the truth of the teacher, and read of 



To all Nations, 55 

this heavenly babe that became the great 
teacher of this kingdom that is to be estab- 
lished on the earth in righteousness, justice 
and peace. 

And in them we shall find just how to 
work for God and man. Man's temporal and 
spiritual welfare will be our victory, which is 
to be gained only through exercising the love- 
principle of Christ to each other. 

This is, then, the beginning of the gospel 
truth in us when we ultimate this love in 
our daily acts. 

We must live for higher aims than self. 
Christ, the Teacher, came not into the world 
to live for self; he said, '' As my Father sent 
me, even so send I you/' 



56 A Centennial Call 



CHAPTER IV. 

The Materials of the Temple^ with the 
Corner-stone, 

IV /TY dear sisters and brothers in the Lord 
^^^ and co-laborers for the building up of 
his kingdom, we are to be purged from all 
sin and iniquity before we can be builders of 
this temple of the living God. The spirit of 
Christ must be the corner-stone in every hu- 
man heart, for in every human heart this 
temple is to be formed. 

How necessary, then, to throw out all rub- 
bish, all that is an offence and an abomination 
in the sight of God, and be cleansed from all 
sin, pollution, selfishness and fraud that is 
against his kingdom ! And after sin and 
iniquity are removed, plough the ground of 
your heart with a willingness and determina- 



To all Nations. 57 

tion of making it a holy fruitful soil where 
fruits of righteousness shall grow ; then 
water it with prayer and commence to sow 
pure gospel seed. And place at the corner 
the foundation-stone which the builders of 
mammon's temple rejected. Then there will 
be a new harvest springing up in your heart ; 
the love-element of heaven will sweep over 
it, and make it blossom and bear fruit unto 
the glory of God. And as the law of nature 
produces blossoms and fruit on earth, so shall 
your soul bloom forth in beauty and holiness 
unspeakable and full of glory to adorn his 
heavenly kingdom, that shall be a world 
without end. 

In the beginning, we read in the word, God 
created man in the garden of Eden, which goes 
to show that it was in accordance with nature 
that man should be born to rule all that was 
born on earth inferior to himself; and as 
man became a spiritual being — that is, born 
of the spirit — he could read life's lessons 
in nature's laws — how he was to be clothed 



58 A Centennial Call 

upon with knowledge from trespassing on 
forbidden ground and satisfying his appetite 
in that which did not belong to his spiritual 
development. But as we find in the words of 
St. Paul, I Cor. xv. 46 : '' Howbeit that was 
not first which is spiritual, but that which is 
natural ; and afterward that which is spirit- 
ual." He said "there is a natural body 
and there is a spiritual body.'* This spiritual 
body, which is within the natural, will unfold 
in wisdom and heavenly understanding as we 
can put down our animal nature and ^die 
daily." Then properly can be said, with St. 
Paul, *' But though our outward man perish, 
yet the inward man is renewed day by day 
and ' put ' on the Lord Jesus Christ." 

This putting on of Christ makes us new 
creatures in God; we are then being born 
anew, and all that was of a carnal nature has 
lost its charms, and we are resurrected into 
newness of life. And the things we once 
loved we now abhor, because they were ** the 
flesh" warring ** against the spirit." 



To all Nations, 59 

Now, as we grow in knowledge and sit 
under wisdom's tree and eat of its delicious 
fruit, we shall find that we will be imbued 
with true understanding how to govern our 
appetites. 

This will then be the unfolding law of our 
nature, to pass out daily from natural sin and 
corruption and to be endowed with power 
from on high to overcome all evil, be it of 
whatever kind it may. Thus we are to become 
purified and fit for the kingdom that awaits 
every true son and daughter of earth. 

And as we enter on the stage of redemption, 
trying to redeem everything that is to become 
noble and sublime in its character, we must 
put away the evil of our nature and study 
that which pertains to our regeneration. 

Christ said, *' Ye which have followed me 
in the regeneration when the Son of man shall 
sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit 
upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes 
of Israel." 

This following him in the regeneration 



6o A Centennial Call 

means to be like him — to be regenerated 
and free from all that corrupts soul and body,, 
and adopt his beautiful life in ours that we 
may become sons and daughters of the living 
God. Christ prayed for the disciples that their 
faith should not fail them. Thus we must look 
with an eye of faith to God for all things which 
we stand in need of for soul and body. 

He has provided for all our wants ; and if 
properly used and understood, we shall be 
profited thereby. 

This is of importance to realize, that all 
comes from a kind and loving Father, the 
author and finisher of our faith. 

Oh how shall we fully adore thee for all that 
we have received from thee in past and pres- 
ent ? Oh that we could become pleasing in 
thy sight, and that our lives could be a daily 
sacrifice to thy glory, and to feel we are pass- 
ing from death* unto newness of life by the 
love which we manifest to each other! Then 
thou couldst dwell with us, and thy holy breath 
would calm every troubled wave in our breasts. 



To all Nations, 6i 



CHAPTER V. 

The Building of this Temple^ and who are the 
Laborers, 

T N this state of mind the Christian ought 
^ always to be found. No trouble shall 
disturb them, because they are the Lord's and 
he is their guide. As the mother guideth 
her child, so the Lord guideth those who look 
to him for guidance. 

We are told through the word, "Whoso 
putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe/' 
And in John xvi. 13, "The Spirit of truth, 
... he will guide you into all truth, . . : 
and he will show you things to come." That 
shows we are not held in darkness except we 
choose darkness rather than light. But if we 
look for that Spirit, we shall find God has sent 
as Christ said^ "the Spirit of truth," that will 



62 A Centennial Call 

go with us as a faithful watchman on hfe^s 
journey. 

Let us, then, give heed to these things which 
were spoken of in the past and take them for 
our present and future guide, feeling that we 
are sure, if we follow the direction of the 
" Spirit of truth,'* which is sent to guard and 
protect us, we are walking in the road that 
leadeth heavenward. 

My dear reader of these pages, may we all 
realize that we must walk in unison while on 
earth, under the influence o^ this holy ** Spirit 
of truth," so as to be able to establish the 
kingdom of heaven on earth as it is in heaven. 
For this reason this *' Spirit of truth " was sent 
to us to help and keep us in remembrance of 
the things that Jesus taught and did. 

This "Spirit of truth," ^^ the Comforter 
which is the Holy Ghost," as we read in John 
xiv. 26 : " Whom the Father will send in my 
name, he shall teach you all things, and bring 
all things to your remembrance, whatsoever 
I have said unto you." 



To all Nations, 63 

Now, the aim for which this '' Spirit of 
truth '' is sent to us is to prepare us through 
the holy teaching with which he comes to 
become '' heirs of salvation," as we read in 
Heb. i. 14: *'Are they not all ministering 
spirits, sent forth to minister for them who 
shall be heirs of salvation ?" And that can 
only be by adopting the teaching of Christ in 
our daily lives and making it practicable on 
earth. 

We must not think that the ultimate result 
of this preparatory state is something which 
belongs to the future world. No, its fruit is 
to ripen while here on this earth. And here 
we are to be, as Christ compared us to, ** trees'' 
that yield their fruitage ; we must see to it 
that we be not barren fig trees, but walking 
trees of knowledge that drop their fruit every- 
where among the people, that they may be 
benefited unto salvation, and thus giving in 
the same measure as we have received. 

This is the state we must be in when we 
can receive the Spirit of truth as a daily guest ; 



64 A Centennial Call 

and feeling that we are attended by the most 
holy ones that are sent to help us on the way, 
we shall lack for nothing, but all shall be 
provided for by a kind Father if we live and 
work by faith in him, having an eye single 
unto his glory. 

It does not seem that we have that perfect 
state of things anywhere at present, and can- 
not have while there is so much selfishness 
on every hand in the w^orld. And they are 
serving ''the prince of this world," that, as 
Christ says, '* cometh and has nothing in me." 
This is the prince of darkness, to which the 
nations fall victims every day except they 
are willing to put on Christ and listen to the 
'* Spirit of truth," that comes as a second mes- 
senger and bears testimony to his teaching. 

Oh that we all may comprehend the new 
command of the Captain of the Christian regi- 
ment, and be willing soldiers that are fitted 
out in gospel attire to slay all that is an 
abomination on the earth and conquer unto 
salvation, with the Master at the head of us ! 



To all Nations, 65 

Oh how necessary it is for us to realize 
that it will not do to lay aside this attire, but 
to be clothed upon daily with strength and 
power to fight the battle of the Lord, that 
his kingdom may be won and established on 
earth as it is in heaven ! 

This is what we must be fitted for to be 
faithful soldiers of the cross who do not 
shrink from the enemy*s darts, but march 
on prayerfully and powerfully, having no 
other aim in view than to establish the king- 
dom of God on earth, that peace may be 
felt throughout all her borders, and the King 
of heaven can reign uninterruptedly on earth 
in power and sway his sceptre of justice, 
righteousness and peace. 

Then his subjects who have fought for the 
kingdom can lay down their weapons of 
weariness, toils, pleading, suffering and sacri- 
fice, for all have become of one mind in the 
Lord Jesus Christ, to whom all glory belongs 
as a crucified Saviour, for truth's sake. 

Beloved reader, there was power in his 
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66 A Centennial Call 

teaching, and it became more powerful 
through the exemplary life which he lived. 

We cannot say that we are obliged to be in 
darkness, and have no light as regards build- 
ing this kingdom upon earth as it is in hea- 
ven. There is no brick or mortar required to 
build this kingdom ; a kingdom of clay houses 
we have already. It means a kingdom of hea- 
ven*s law within the breast of every human 
soul that will not oppress his brother man in 
any shape or form. But live unto his service 
and the glory of God as though every day 
was the last he would be permitted to live. 

If we will all take this home to ourselves, 
and study for a moment how we would feel 
and act were we experiencing the last day of 
our lives, then we can judge how differently 
we would act toward ourselves and others 
were that the case. 

If we endeavor to think this matter over, 
we shall find that these duties devolving upon 
us must be ultimated in useful and prac- 
tical works. This is not or will not be our 



To all Nations, 6^ 

abiding city. We are only travelers here for 
a time to be trained to become '* heirs of salva- 
tion," and finally, if faithful to our trust, reign 
in glory with the Lord of hosts. 

It is only required of us while we sojourn 
here to live, as the poet said, *'to leave behind 
us footprints on the sands of time " that will 
leave a bright memory that we lived not in 
vain, but that we did as we were com- 
manded, following in the Master footsteps, 
the best we ever could follow. 

Thus at the journey's end we can look back, 
feeling that while we traveled we left blos- 
soms of truth that had unfolded into a life 
of charity and love to the neighbor as to self. 

Then, indeed, we can say of such memories 
when departing, Noble deeds are left *' behind 
us in the footprints on the sands of time." 

I often think that was what Jesus thought 
when he wrote in the sand at the time when 
the unruly Jews came to accuse their victim, 
the woman, before Christ. No doubt he 
would have liked occasion for a different sub- 



68 A Centennial Call 

ject at that time, but we have it on record 
thus — that they wanted, according to the 
laws and barbarism of Moses, to stone her. 
I do not know that Moses inaugurated such 
a law, however; so it says in holy ^v\t, fearful 
*' footprints left on the sands of time." Not 
much like the laws of the lowly Nazarene, 
our beloved Master, Jesus, who did not con- 
demn either of the parties, but in his meek- 
ness and lowliness of spirit, when he asked 
where her accusers were, said to her, " Neither 
do I condemn thee; go and sin no more." 

We that profess to be travelers to the 
celestial city of peace, can we put on the robe 
of holiness and forbearance, like our beloved 
Master? Then we can go hand in hand wijth 
him in the road of redemption, saving souls 
that will not only adorn the kingdom of 
heaven on earth that is to be established 
through Christ's faithful followers, but will 
adorn the everlasting kingdom, which has no 
end, eternal in the heavens. Peace, peace, 
awaits every traveler of earth who is seeking 



To all Nations, 69 

in earnest for this heavenly inheritance in the 
world to come. 

Remember that only as we are faithful to 
our duties and charges here can we gain an 
admittance there in that blest abode which is 
reserved for those who carried out the Mas- 
ter's command. 

May God help us all to do his w^ill, that 
when our souls are cast on eternity's shore 
we may be accepted of him. For this we 
pray unto the Father of our salvation, and 
that the fiery trials which we have passed 
through may not be in vain. But as we find 
in the words of St Paul, 2 Corinthians iv. 17: 
** For our light affliction, which is but for a 
moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding 
and eternal weight of glory " than ever this 
world could bestow upon mortals. 

This city of our God, to which every true 
Christian is hastening, may we not forget that 
our fellow-mortals are traveling with us on 
life's rugged pathway, with whom we often 
meet in the walks of life ! Knowing they do 



70 A Centennial Cah 

not feel drawn in the direction that leadeth to 
the city of our God, but that leadeth where 
the sinful and wicked have gone before, oh 
let us rescue them while there yet is time, 
and feel for them as though they were our 
own loved ones. They are our own in God, 
because we belong to the family fold of one 
common Father. And God destined them, if 
they would, to become his sons and daugh- 
ters. To this effect he sent his beloved Son 
from above to earth to tread the weary walks 
of life that he might teach all who would to 
find that blissful haven of rest. 

Now, as he has fulfilled his mission in doing 
his Father's will, it behooves us as his fol- 
lowers to feed his lambs and his sheep, as he 
told Peter to do. By this saying Peter's love 
was tested three times ; when Christ asked 
him, '' Peter, lovest thou me ?*' " Feed my 
lambs," '* Feed my sheep/' that meant to 
teach in living acts the pure and loving doc- 
trine of Christ to sinners of every grade and 
condition, both old and young. 



To all Nations, j\ 

This is required of us as followers of 
Christ. And in accordance as we can do this 
and follow out his love we remove the tares 
from the wheat, making a clean harvest of 
this earth. 

And then we can produce fruit unto the 
glory of God, because we have cleared away- 
all that destroyed the roots of the true seed 
of the kingdom of heaven in the heart, which 
is the soil that the kingdom of heaven is to 
be built upon. 



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CHAPTER VI. 

How the Kingdom of God is to become the 
Universal Kingdom upon the Earth. 

'nr^HIS kingdom must be formed within 
-*■ the human heart, its laws estabhshed, 
justice, peace and righteousness reign, before 
we can say the kingdom of God is in the 
heart. While we prefer to walk in the do- 
mains of darkness this kingdom is shut out 
from our hearts, and we cannot feel we walk 
in the light which they do who walk by 
faith and not by sight, and live in the delight 
of heaven, carrying out its laws and retreat- 
ing into the innermost recesses of the heart 
in prayer and communion with God. 

When we become so imbued with his Spirit 
as to be able to find all that which is neces- 
sary to build up a holy temple within, then 
God can take up his abode in our souls. 



To all Nations. 73 

Mysterious are thy ways, O God ! " Thy 
ways are pleasantness and peace/* And in 
thy habitation dwelleth those who have served 
thee and fought for freedom's weapon, which 
they carry as a symbol that they fought well 
under the banner of love. 

Holy Mediator, thou who art the Captain 
of our salvation, to thee we come, feeling 
there is still a higher power than thee. Him 
whom thou calledst Father and said, "My 
Father is greater than I," we also call Father. 
That was the first message delivered to Mary 
and the disciples after his resurrection, as we 
read in John xx. 17 : '' Go to my brethren and 
say unto them, I ascend unto my Father and 
your Father, and to my God and your God.'' 
By this he directed us to a higher power than 
himself, as he came after he had laid down 
the mortal life and claimed the same God 
whom he said we had. Let us look at this 
in its true light that we may not misconstrue 
his sayings. 

Oh that we may be cemented in all that is 



74 ^ Centennial Call 

righteous in the sight of God, so we can daily 
feel we are doing his will ! And as life is 
drawing to a close may we be so fitted and 
prepared that we can enter into that holy city 
without spot and without blemish ! 

We are to live in the fulfillment of his laws, 
which are to be established in our hearts ; and 
when we live in its ultimate, this earth will 
become the kingdom of our God as it exists 
in heaven. 

And now, to have this kingdom of heaven 
become a universal kingdom on the earth, we 
must put on heaven's livery, fighting for the 
truth and trying to be of one mind in our 
Lord, hearing his voice calling us at all times 
and under all circumstances, continually to 
be on our guard watching for the enemy * 
while he steals upon us trying to make his 
attacks. 

God forbid that any one should be slain by 
his sinful weapons, and be left out from that 
heavenly abode which is prepared for his 
children. But oh may we strive to enter 



7!:? all Nations, 75 

in through the narrow gate that leadeth unto 
Hfe and immortahty ! 

To become fit for this immortahty we must 
put on Christ, which is heayen's Hvery, by 
adopting his hfe in our own, and hve, as he 
did, in love and charity with all mankind. 
And as we study this maxim and perform the 
same deeds that he did, we shall not only have 
power given us to ultimate the same love and 
works which he did, but he promised we 
should do even " greater things " than he. 

For this he came into the world, to show 
us by his example and teaching it is not 
impossible to do the same things which he 
did, but a great deal more. He was the 
corner-stone of the temple, a sure foundation 
to build upon if properly understood. He is 
the foundation or corner-stone on which the 
temple of this kingdom is to be built. 

Now, in this type of Christ, he being com- 
pared to a corner-stone, there is no particular 
beauty ; but when we bring it into its proper 
place where it was intended for use, then it 



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becomes the strength of the building. And 
if there are good laborers who understand 
the architecture of the building which is to 
be built upon this foundation, there will be 
true united labor, and a most glorious temple 
will be erected in every human heart that 
shall bear the name of love and uses in 
loving acts to God and man. 

But this can only be accomplished when 
first we become of one mind in Christ — that 
is to say, we must form ourselves like a class 
of children in school learning the same lesson. 
It is utterly impossible to build a house if the 
laborers are not united ; and to be united in 
the labor we must be at our post, having 
nothing in view but the erection of this tem- 
ple. Every man at his post to carry out the 
heavenly command which God has given him 
to do for himself and his fellow-man. 



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CHAPTER VII. 

The Builders and the Structure of this Temple, 

"XT OW, to be builders of this temple, we 
^ must arm ourselves against any inva- 
ders who Gome to destroy this building, so 
that we may be able to present to the view 
of others the glory and unlock its interior 
mystery and grandeur. 

A true Christian's life is a warfare, as all 
know who have passed through it; and when 
we commence to realize farther that it will be 
nothing else so long as things are as they are 
in Church and State, we will find that we form 
a part of its commotion. On one hand we 
have comparative justice in Church and State, 
and on the other we have a clamor of all that 

is disorderly ; and it will be so until we com- 
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mence to realize that we have something to 
do in this field of human redemption. 

We must not think, because we may be 
members of the Church of the first born, as 
we term it and as every one claims, be they 
of whatever creed or caste, that we, by profess- 
ing that name, do thereby become born into 
newness of life in all instances. Oh no ; let 
us not deceive ourselves, but feel that we 
have something to do in Church as well as in 
State, and that there must be a true and holy 
government springing out from the Church of 
God's children that has put on the attire of 
Christ, and is fighting down every evil in 
Church and State, being prepared to follow 
the heavenly army which was sent, as in the 
time of Jesus, the first-born, to declare "peace 
on earth and good will to men.'' 

This peace must come fully on earth, Jesus 
being the first leader of love and holy princi- 
ples. And till we can recognize the Master's 
command we will go to work the wrong way 
in establishing our armies. 



To all Nations. 79 

Let us give heed to this, that his command 
does not convey an uncertain sound, and 
instead we get the command of the prince of 
this world, which Christ said " cometh and 
has nothing in me." 

Yes, do you not perceive that this prince 
of the world, whom Christ rejected as having 
no part in him, has been doing his powerful 
work with the nations throughout the globe ? 

And now very few commence to see the 
danger of the past and present and hasten to 
prepare for the coming of the great God to 
judge the nations, some to everlasting joys, 
and some to condemnation. 

Oh, let us put on the whole armor and 
shrink neither to the right nor the left, but 
feel that we have a city to be gained eternal 
in the heavens, and a kingdom to be estab- 
lished upon the earth that bears the impress 
of the heavenly, which shall sway its sceptre 
over the whole earth in justice, righteousness 
and peace. To this the angels say Amen, 
and Hosanna to God in the highest shall be 



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sung when this takes place and can be estab- 
lished on the earth. 

But before this can be established we shall 
have wars and rumors of wars, and the mighty- 
powers of God w^ill ride on the chariots of his 
wrath and cause all things seemingly to come 
into confusion. 

But note, the kingdom must be established 
on earth as it is in heaven, and will be as the 
word teaches : '* The kingdom of heaven suf- 
fereth violence and the violent taketh it by- 
force," and the Lord's subjects will have to 
fight to bring these things about 

No peace can be felt within her borders till 
all that is an abomination in the sight of God 
and the holy company above can be annihi- 
lated on the earth, and a new state of things 
takes place, which bears justice in all its 
attributes to God and man. 

Then the sayings, as we read in St. Matt. 
xxiv. 7, will have been verified : '\ For na- 
tion shall rise against nation, and kingdom 
against kingdom : and there shall be famines, 



To all Nations. 8 1 

and pestilences, and earthquakes in divers 
places.'* 

All this commotion which we have in nature, 
through floods, earthquakes, threatened famine 
and pestilence and commotion in the human 
mind and heart, is a talisman of the forebod- 
ing of coming times to the armies that are to 
be arrayed for the battle of the Lord which will 
surely take place before peace can be inaugu- 
rated. Till then we shall see insects forming 
themselves into armies, going from north to 
south and from east to west, destroying every- 
thing that is for man's sustenance, only a true 
representation of coming evils which will try 
to prevent the builders from prospering in the 
building of the kingdom upon earth. 

Which is the sanctuary of every man's 
heart that ought to be imbued with heaven's 
holiest laws of love to God and his fellow- 
man, and to live such acceptable lives in 
the sight of Him from whom this law proceeds 
that angels can come and go daily and hourly 
and gather the choicest treasures of love from 



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this sanctuary of the human heart to deck the 
heavenly kingdom with as praises unto God 
that they have received the teaching of 
the Holy Spirit, which is God's love in their 
hearts. 

Think, when we can universally be in this 
state of mind, what we will have in Church 
and State government. 

We will have a paradise on earth, in which 
will grow a corresponding spiritual tree with 
every human soul, bearing the twelve manners 
of fruit, which we will illustrate through this 
work that is watered by its living streams, the 
sap which flowed from the spiritual vine, Jesus 
Christ, and thus became the spiritual es- 
sence of his blood, which was sacrificed from 
love to God and love to man in fulfilling his 
Father's will, as he said he came to do. 

We have now illustrated the weapons which 
are to be used in this warfare and the attire 
with which we are to be equipped as we 
enter on the frontier to attack all evil and 
wrong principles which cannot be called a fit 



To all Nations, 83 

command and come under the head of the 
new commandment of Christ. 

Under this head the Christian army will 
march, bearing this inscription on their scep- 
tres, Love to God and love to man, the 
teaching of Jesus our Captain. 

We will now lead the reader to take a sym- 
bolic view of this Christian army as they are 
to be fitted up as true soldiers of the cross, 
and will illustrate their glory in the type of a 
temple whose foundation-stone is the Lord 
Jesus Christ, and the adjoining stones which 
form the foundation and the general structure 
of this temple is the result of the Christian 
heart in its glorious unfolding of love and 
holiness to God and man. 

And as we behold this spiritual structure 
of the soul, in its glorious unfolding represent- 
ing the temple of the living God on his throne, 
giving out his laws in the human heart, which 
is to bear the name of immortal love and 
justice. 

We will now consider this symbol of the 



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inner temple from a Christian standpoint in 
its natural and spiritual development, and 
will proceed by viewing the outside architec- 
ture of this temple before we enter into the 
holiest and reveal its inner glory. 

First, then, we behold the walls of this tem- 
ple decked with precious stones of different 
kinds ; on the left of the entrance to this 
temple we find these precious stones immov- 
able, presenting a glaring lustre. When on 
the right side of the entrance, there we behold 
the same kind of stones which form the w^all, 
but they are intermingling and blending with 
each other, making a charming contrast in 
their blending beauty. 

These are the emblems of the true laborers 
in Christ's kingdom, who are working daily 
to build the temple on this foundation-stone 
which is Jesus Christ. 

The stones on the left, which seemed 
immovable, are the emblems of those Chris- 
tians who do not work neither with mind nor 
heart for the elevation, morals or needs of 



To all Nations, 85 

humanity, and are of no benefit whatsoever, 
neither in temporal nor spiritual things. 

Within the heart of such Christians there 
is a dead chamber, which throws out nothing 
but a ghostly lustre and can truly be com- 
pared to the words of St. James, ii. 26: " For 
as the body without the spirit is dead, so 
faith without works is dead also." 

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CHAPTER VIII. 

The Corner-stone^ and the cementing together of 
these Precious Stones which form this Temple, 

\ T TE will now conclude wuth our remarks 
^ on Jesus Christ as the corner-stone. 
We cannot perceive him as we do the other 
stones, but he is there ; and except there was 
that firm stone of the building serving as the 
foundation, the building would soon with its 
precious stones fall into confusion, like the 
Babel-builders, who erected the tower of Ba- 
bel without this firm foundation, thinking 
they could build themselves up into heaven. 

No ; they had to come down, and were 
confounded in their speech ; consequently 
they had to stop building. Now, this temple, 
which is to become the kingdom of God and 
his saints, cometh not with observation, but 
is to be formed in the heart, and comes down 



To all Nations, 87 

to us through holy inspiration into the minds 
of the people through the *' Spirit of truth," 
that has come to lead and guide the sons and 
daughters of the Most High, to give heed to 
this holy teaching, Heb. ii. 3 : '* Which at 
the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and 
was confirmed unto us by them that heard 
him." 

We have now presented the precious stones 
which form the framework of this temple; 
set forth and located the corner-stone, which 
the builders at that time rejected, which is 
Jesus Christ coming in his second coming 
to reveal himself to the human heart 

Then the stern and the strong ones are 
those who are the laborers of his mighty 
gospel of reform, to destroy all that is an 
abomination in the sight of God. Sin must 
be done away with, and we must be pure, 
substantial mortar in among the stones that 
form this foundation. 

Much labor is required; but when the true 
foundation ones are laid, the house will not 



88 A Centennial Call 

fall or be washed away, because it is builded 
upon the rock Jesus Christ, the corner-stone. 

Thus this foundation consists of many stones 
that must be like unto Christ in this building. 

As an established Church there must be 
twenty-four elders, twelve of each sex, corre- 
sponding to the four and twenty elders before 
the throne of God, and are the emblems of 
the pillars which this Church must rest upon 
that are fixed and firm in the foundation-stone. 
Then, as the walls with the pillars are erected, 
the laborers will mingle and blend with each 
other, forming this heavenly architecture. 
They must be of one mind in Christ, the 
corner-stone, so as to be able to properly 
succeed in erecting this building ; if not, they 
will turn out Babel-builders; their tongues 
will be confounded, and it will end in con- 
troversy. 

Now, to be properly endowed with power 
from on high to erect this temple, we must 
continually keep the great Architect in view 
who gave us the pattern of this building. 



To all Nations. 89 

Then shall we have in this temple, which is 
the New Jerusalem, descending out of heaven 
from God in the human heart, as we read in 
Rev. xxi./*the twelve gates,'' each "of one 
pearl." " On the east three gates, on the 
north three gates, on the south three gates, 
and on the west three gates,'' indicating that 
the people of the Lord will come from all the 
four corners of the earth to enter in through 
those beautiful gates, which is the human heart 
in its glorious unfolding, representing that the 
King of glory has taken up his abode therein. 

When all things which are to be estab- 
lished on earth can bear a correspondence to 
that which exists in heaven, then truly the 
King of glory can be represented as having 
taken up his abode in the human heart. 

We also represent all that this glorious 
temple constitutes and form a part of that 
glorious hall. We will now see what we 
meet at the entrance of these gates. Behold, 
we often find the distressed sitting, looking to 
us for aid and help to soul and body, as at 

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the time of Jesus, when they looked to him 
to be healed of their infirmities — he that 
was heaven's choicest gate ; for through 
him nations are to enter the kingdom of the 
blessed abodes of the redeemed. 

Yes, again we say, at the entrance of these 
gates of the beautiful which we represent, 
having put on the love of the Lord Jesus 
Christ, we shall find, like him, the desolate, 
the blind, the downtrodden, the unhappy, the 
forsaken, the poor desolate widow and or- 
phan in their anguish, and the sinner of every 
grade, at these beautiful gates of the temple, 
pleading to those who have entered into the 
temple for help and assistance to soul and 
body, and that their sorrowful lamentations 
may be heard. 

Yes, if these temples, which we are to rep- 
resent, are founded on the corner-stone, the 
builders cannot help doing the same as Christ 
did, because he said in John xiv. 12 : ** Verily, 
verily, I say unto you. He that believeth in 
me, the works that I do shall he do also, 



To all Nations, 91 

and greater works than these shall he do, be- 
cause I go unto my Father. 

Dear-beloved co-worker with me in this 
glorious temple, see that you go by the exact 
pattern laid out in the heavenly mount from 
which this corner-stone was cut, lest while 
we try to go by this pattern some other pat- 
tern comes into our mind, and we send fo 
more modern materials, which will charm 
the eye and the ear and make us forget the 
old-fashioned chart which was laid out for us 
to build by. 

We have now presented the gates and the 
foundation of the walls that shall interblend in 
beauty of the faithful co-laborers in Christ for 
the elevation and happiness of the neighbor 
and the glory and royalty of heaven. 

Now we come to the steeple of this tem- 
ple. In its centre we see fixed a timepiece ; 
to tell us, watcher, what of the time. Thy 
golden finger points me to the hour when 
the laborer's work of life is done. Then, oh 
then, may we have so lived that we can real- 



92 A Centennial Call 

ize we have been faithful laborers in the 
vineyard of the Lord in calling together 
laborers to build up these temples to his 
glory ! 

And when each human heart beats with 
love for his fellow-man, then these temples 
can be cemented together, constituting one 
glorious whole, and we can hear, like a distant 
echo, the harmonious music within, for it calls 
and swells in rapport with all that is heavenly 
and divine. 

As we have presented to the view of the 
reader the strucure of this temple formed of 
the precious stones which are the laborers 
who form this building, we will proceed to 
unlock the mystery of this temple. 

The golden key which is to unlock the 
doors of this temple and open to view its 
inner glory is the glory of God that is unfold- 
ing the human heart and makes it lean on its 
Maker, God, as a child on its mother's breast. 
We can then commence to breathe the pure 
air of heaven for its unfolding when we realize 



To all Nations. 93 

the door of the heart is open to let the glory 
of heaven stream in. 

It is then we can say with the apostles of 
old, ** For ye were sometimes darkness, but 
now are ye light in the Lord ; walk as chil- 
dren of light," and as ** able ministers of the 
new testament, not of the letter, but of the 
spirit ; for the letter killeth, but the spirit 
giveth life." 

It is the glory of the spiritual understand- 
ing of the word that comes to us as we open 
the door of the heart and let the King of 
glory come in. We shall then be illumined 
with the glorious light of heaven, and instead 
of darkness, there shall be light. He has 
come to take up his abode, and sits like '^a 
refiner of silver " and gold on the sons and 
daughters of those that are to adorn his heav- 
enly kingdom that shall have no end. 

To be able to serve God in the newness of 
the spirit we must exercise our will-power 
and make up our minds to serve him at any 
cost. 



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This will-power it is that ploughs up the old 
roots of the weeds of sin ; then first the true 
seed can be sown in the kingdom of the heart 
and precious plants can be produced. 

But to have this done and the seed quick- 
ened into life there must be a breeze of this 
heavenly birth making a clean sweep over the 
ground of the heart, as the evils must be 
rooted up. 

Then first the heart is in a fit and prepared 
state to receive the true seed of the kingdom 
of heaven. After they have taken root and 
commenced to bear blossoms and fruit, we 
can then see that the seed fell into good 
ground, sprung up and bore fruit, and can 
realize through this process that we are born 
of the Spirit. 

This is the process of the new birth concern- 
ing which Christ spoke to Nicodemus that 
'' except a man be born again he cannot see 
the kingdom of God." Consequently, it is 
necessary to give heed to these things. 

While the door of the heart is closed and 



To all Nations, 95 

that garden within, which ought to bear the 
choicest blossoms and fruit unto God and 
man, bears nothing but weeds, no glory can 
enter nor any development take place in the 
new creation of the heart where all is dark- 
ness and chaos. 

To be born again it is necessary to be preg- 
nated with spiritual and intellectual air that 
moistens the ground of the heart, and be able 
to have our understanding opened of Jesus, 
as he did to the apostles after his departure, 
that we as/* they might understand the Scrip- 
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CHAPTER IX. 

The Golden Key tvhich is to Unlock the Mystery of 
the Inner Glory of this Temple and reveal the 
Sanctuary of the Heart, with the Offerings pro- 
duced from the ^^Tree of Life that Bears 
Twelve Manners of Fruit, and the Leaves are 
for the Healing of the Nations, \ ' 

A ND thus we will proceed to unfold the 
•^ ^ mysteries of the inner glory of this 
temple. Every human heart must throw off 
the chains of sin and worldliness which bar 
the door of this temple — that is to say, 
throw the doors of your heart open for the 
King of glory to come in and take up his 
abode and shed abroad the heavenly mar- 
riage delight. Then the heart has become a 
union between heaven and earth on which 
the angels can come and lay down the choicest 
tokens of heaven's delight. 



To all Nations, 97 

The human heart must be in rapport with 
the divine, and it is impossible for us to be 
imbued with this heavenly wisdom while we 
are living to self, in darkness and ignorance 
of all that pertains to this spiritual unfolding. 

The human heart, as we have said, is the 
place where this kingdom of heaven is to be 
formed. Christ did not teach that the king- 
dom of heaven should come with observation, 
but as we read in Luke xvii. 20, 21: ''For 
behold the kingdom of God is within you." 

Now, it is necessary that we be endowed 
with power from on high to be able to have 
the kingdom of heaven formed within and to 
promulgate all that belongs to this kingdom. 
We have much in these human hearts of ours 
that must undergo renovation, and only as we 
set about seeking to find all that which is out 
of order and try to make it right can we 
find what is needed to make it a fit temple 
for the King to dwell in. 

We will now, in the first place, illustrate the 

evils of the natural man's unregenerated 
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heart. Selfishness and self-gratification is 
always the root that produces the tree which 
carries evil fruit on its branches and destroys 
the vitality of his better nature, which ought to 
be imbued with holiness and righteousness. 

The evil fruit which is produced from this 
tree often flourishes in worldly prosperity, 
and seemingly as we read in Psalms xxxvii. 
35 : ''I have seen the wicked in great power, 
spreading himself as a green bay tree," they 
casting off their fruit of destruction to others, 
as well as being pregnated with evil them- 
selves ; and others, eating thereof, become in- 
toxicated and charmed with that which destroys 
-soul and body through life and eternity. 

Thus the human heart is desperately wicked 
while it is in a selfish and carnal state, and sees 
nothing more glorious than to live and gratify 
self in every department of its being. 

Consequently, that which ought to bring 
forth fruit unto holiness is choked by the 
weed ; and this weed must be rooted up, as 
Christ teaches in the word : " Every plant 



To all Nations. gg 

which my heavenly Father has not planted 
shall be rooted up." 

This shows that the weed which produces 
evil fruit cannot exist in the garden of the 
soul, where the Husbandman chiefly dwells. 
He does not tolerate such plants; they must 
be pulled up before the true grain, which will 
produce good fruit, can take root and flourish. 

Such trees are desirable to this Husband- 
man ; he owns all these plants and waters 
them alike with his love and grace. 

But the human heart sometimes forms a 
covering to conceal the evils and shut out the 
sun, so that the beams of the Sun of righteous- 
ness cannot penetrate. Consequently, it grows 
in the shade, and often clear darkness ; and 
the true light that is to unfold it into uses of 
divine love is shut out. 

And instead, it causes barrenness and no 
growth, but becomes dwarfed, and cannot 
produce the right kind of fruit, as it would 
had it unfolded under the gentle rays of the 
Sun of righteousness. 



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The fruit-bearing tree (to which the Master 
compares us) in its first unfolding produces 
leaves, then blossoms, then fruit; these are 
the three unfoldings of the human heart. 

We will dwell first on the correspondence 
of the leaves, which is the truth we have and 
are receiving that teaches of a regenerated 
life unto the glory of God, use and self- 
sacrifice to humanity. This foliage ought 
always to be green and beautiful and kept 
fresh by the dews of prayer. 

Then watching that no worm comes to 
make its home in this foliage of truth ; for if 
we do not watch our hearts and our evil pro- 
pensities, it will be like a wormy foliage, and 
consequently will have no power to unfold 
into blossoms. 

Then again we will come to the second un- 
folding of this tree of the human heart. 

If the truth we have received has been 
watered by prayer and kept free from the 
worms, the foliage is perfect and brings forth 
the unfolding of the blossoms. These beau- 



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tiful truths which are given to us must bud 
into blossoms before the tree can bear fruit. 
Thus the blossoms of this tree are its glory 
as they unfold in beauty and shed their sweet- 
scented fragrance. And the passer-by can in- 
hale its rich fragrance and receive a delight in 
the soul from beholding its beauty, which was 
placed there by the heavenly Artist, which is 
love unspeakable and full of glory. Thus the 
blossoms have their day, and each one cul- 
minates into delicious fruit peculiar to its 
kind. 

And only as we can realize that the unfold- 
ing of the human heart does not consist of 
one kind of fruit, but we must each one repre- 
sent the tree of knowledge that bears twelve 
manners of fruit, "and the" very *' leaves" 
will be '*for the healing of the nations," which 
is the truth given to the sin-sick soul and 
body. 

This tree shall eventually flourish through 
endless eternity. We must not think because 

we have the truths the emblem of the fohage, 

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102 A Centennial Call 

and that foliage has produced beautiful blos- 
soms, that it must stop here, which is to say 
we speak and feel the truth and minister the 
truth unto others, making them, as well as 
ourselves, feel this delight in the soul brought 
forth by the truth. No, no ; all this process 
was for the purpose of bringing forth fruit 
and glory unto God and humanity. 

This fruit is the product of the human heart, 
and is the result of the two preceding unfold- 
ings. We will illustrate its quality. It has 
been brought forth from perfect leafage, 
culminated into blossoms that have unfolded 
their petals for the formation of the fruitage. 
This is the process that the human heart must 
undergo in its regenerative unfoldment before 
it can come into a fruit-bearing condition, 
which being the third unfolding, it gathers up 
all the elements from above. As the sunlight 
and heat in the natural, so the human soul 
unfolds from the atmosphere of divine heat 
and love, and its substance springs from the 
new birth. The seed of truth that proceeds 



To all Nations, 103 

from God, which has taken root in a fruitful 
soil, springs up, and is now ripening into de- 
licious fruit unto the glory of God and uses 
of love to humanity. 

This truth, while it is forming, contains all 
the elements for its unfolding ; and the human 
soul can drink in the dew of heaven, which 
is the heavenly teaching, and be warmed with 
the divine heat, and through the beams of the 
Sun of righteousness "bring forth fruit, some 
thirty fold, some sixty and some an hundred.'* 

This, beloved friends, is the type of the un- 
folding of the human heart in its three pro- 
gressive states. First, that which is natural ; 
next, that which is spiritual. This process is 
the spiritual meaning of the word, and let us 
not mistake ourselves thinking that through 
these different unfoldings we are all complete 
and perfect. No one can judge, till the fruit 
be tested and proved, of what sort it is, which 
is the third unfolding. The fruit of the Spirit 
is love both to God and to the neighbor. Christ 
taught that *'by their fruits ye shall know 



I04 A Centennial Call 

them," so we can only judge the fruit by taking 
it down from the tree and tasting its quality. 
If it is sound and free from worms, then it is 
fit for use. Therefore the Christian is com- 
pared to a tree, and by the fruit we bear we 
are to be judged. 

Let us enumerate the fruits of the Spirit, 
which belong to ms as Christians, as we find 
them in Gal. v. 22, 23 : " But the fruit of the 
Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentle- 
ness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance." 
To become perfect fruit-bearing trees we must 
JiJ'st root up the barren fig trees, which the 
Lord denounced as useless, that they may not 
cumber the ground of our hearts. He came 
for three years seeking fruit and found none, 
and at last said^ *'Cut it down." 

Now, my dear friends, does this not show 
that Christ, in using this type, wants in his 
vineyard trees that bear fruit, and not those 
that are like the barren fig trees ? 

But, alas! my reader, many barren fig trees 
meet us on every hand, and they cumber the 



To all Nations, 105 

ground, diaw the substance from the adjoin- 
ing trees, that otherwise would flourish if the 
barren ones were cut down — that is to say, 
removed from their places that others might 
spring up which would bear sound fruit. 

You have no doubt noticed if a tree bear- 
ing good fruit drops its seed it will spring up 
and bear the same kind, and sometimes better ; 
but of a barren tree, or a tree bearing bad 
fruit, x\o\\\\w^ good \^ produced. 

Now, this garden of the heart must be 
ploughed and ridden of all weeds, all barren 
trees, all poisonous plants which bear nothing 
but poison to soul and body, and instead of 
producing a plentiful harvest of precious fruit 
produce nothing but barrenness and weeds. 

Let us go to work, then, and see what state 
the garden of our heart is in, what kind of 
plants grow there, what kind of water we 
water them with, and what soil we have to 
produce the kind of plants and trees desir- 
able for our heavenly Father to behold. 

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io6 A Centennial Call 

in this garden of the heart, in which the king- 
dom of heaven is to be established, he may 
find it so perfectly blended with the angels 
that indeed he can say, My kingdom is come 
upon the earth as it is in heaven. 

This must take place before he can come 
and take up his abode in our hearts. 

Let us see what kind of a tree this is that 
should have the name of the "tree of life 
which bears twelve manners of fruit," and 
whose ** leaves are for the healing of the na- 
tions." Its glorious name is charity and 
self-sacrifice ; for out of these cometh know- 
ledge, and from knowledge cometh uses of 
love. 

Now we will present the different manners 
of fruit that grow on this tree of knowledge, 
whose sap is divine love in the soul, that 
vibrates and inhales continually the nourish- 
ment through faith in divine power and assist- 
ance to bring forth every unfolding of these 
precious fruits. 

First, then, comes charity, which is love; 



To all Nations, 107 

without this love, which i^ divine heat and il- 
lumination in the soul, nothing can be brought 
forth. Second, self-sacrifice. Third, uses of 
love. Fouj^th, sacrifices from love. Fifth, That 
which leadeth the sinner from his evil ways 
and covereth a multitude of sins, which also 
is charity. Sixth, wisdom's fruit. When 
we have these elements within the soul and a 
desire to put them into use, we must ask God, 
as the word teaches: '' If any of you lack wis- 
dom, let him ask of God.'' Seventh, univer- 
sal love to all mankind, and glorifying God 
through this love in rendering our bodies and 
lives a living sacrifice to his glory. Eighth, 
put into use all these attributes of the hu- 
man mind, having but one desire, which is, 
to do the will of God and to fulfill " the 
royal law " to love each other as ourselves. 
Ninth, to lift the lowly, the forsaken and the 
outcast, ministering to their wants and rais- 
ing them up to a proper standard through our 
efforts. Tenth, to never weary of well doing, 
but ever watching and praying for divine aid 



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to be able to accomplish that for which we 
were born naturally, and to pass through the 
new birth. 

This tree of life is the fruit of the new 
birth, and the last fruits of all which are seen 
uppermost on this tree, always lifting their 
crown to be endowed with power, strength 
and glory from on high, are faith, hope and 
charity, holiness and purity unto God, for 
great peace shall they have whose minds are 
stayed on thee and can sit in the shade of the 
branches of this tree, continually bearing in 
mind the will of the Lord, and that we were 
born for the purpose of ultimating his will 
through uses of love to all mankind. 

Thus this tree will stretch its branches to 
gather in the nations, till each one of us can 
realize that we are the type of this tree of life 
that will drop its fruitage to the nations, and 
they become the consumers of this product 
which is begotten through this regenerative 
process. 

To this, beloved reader, we are all invited, 



To all Nations. 109 

and to put on the beautiful apparel of spring, 
the first ultimate process of the regenerated 
heart, and the following process, that of the 
blossoms which are to culminate into fruit, 
which is, as we have stated, the third unfold- 
ing. 

Beloved friends, when each Christian can 
commence to realize that this is the process 
of a regenerate life step by step, then first 
can we tolerate each other's experience and 
consider them right in their place. 

We will now engage our thoughts with the 
atmosphere, the sun, the light that surrounds 
this tree, and the gardener who watches over 
this precious plant of truth till it becomes a 
fruit-bearing tree of knowledge fit to adorn 
the paradise of God. 

The atmosphere that is to surround this 
tree must be a continual outpouring of 
prayer unto God by faith in him to nourish 
the seed till it has taken firm root in the soil 
of the heart, and as it goes on with the dif- 
ferent processes to bring forth the tender 
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plants it must be watered continually by faith 
and prayer. 

Faith is the sunrise of the soul that 
echoes from earth to the heavenly shores and 
bids the weary wanderer look to God. And 
prayer is the choicest outpouring of the soul 
to God, as by faith we lean on the bosom of 
our Maker for support in all that is necessary 
to this regenerate life. 

Thus faith and prayer are necessary daily and 
hourly, so that we may be able to live con- 
tinually in the atmosphere of heaven by faith. 
And in having the prayer answered we must 
live in constant communion with God and 
those whom he has sent to minister unto us, 
according as the word teaches : '*Are they not 
all ministering spirits sent forth to minister to 
them that shall be heirs of salvation ?" These 
ministering spirits are to our souls what the 
gardeners are to the natural plants and blos- 
soms. 

Thus we will illustrate the blossoms of the 
souls, and with what tenderness our heaven- 



To all Nations, 1 1 1 

ly Father has sent his beloved spirits and 
angels to cultivate these blossoms of the 
human heart. 

They are the heavenly gardeners that are 
sent to show how we are to be thrifty branches 
in the vine Jesus Christ, which is to accept 
of the true substance and vitality of his teach- 
ing, and, as we read in the word, those angels 
are coming to bear witness to his teaching. 

O fellow-mortal ! you who as yet know 
nothing of the garden of God in the soul, 
nor of the tree of knowledge which is to bear 
the twelve manners of fruit for the benefit of 
yourself and others, or do not realize that 
there must be a heaven within thy soul and 
that this heaven constitutes the paradise 
of God, where he can come and delight in 
rapport and beauty with you and delight in 
the precious and holy plants which are to fill 
this garden with delicious fruit fit for his 
glory. 

O my friends ! delay not, but commence 
to form an Eden in your hearts. Pull up all 



112 A Centennial Call 

the weeds and commence to sow seeds of 
holiness to God and uses of love to man, and 
guard against that no weed can creep in 
among the tender plants and twine them- 
selves around them. 

Commence in earnest to cultivate the 
ground of your heart. Look over it care- 
fully and see what kind of weeds you have 
growing there that you perceive destroys your 
usefulness and inaugurates evil instead of 
good. Wax not old in sin and intemperance, 
for the destruction of such life comes at last 
like a tornado and causes immediate and total 
destruction to soul and body. 

This is what must be considered the pen- 
alty to those who have not watched over the 
garden of their hearts, but have let every kind 
of poisonous weed creep in which are often 
found in gardens destroying every surround- 
ing plant. 

So it is with sin in the human heart. One 
deadly sin will assume the supremacy of the 
heart and destroy everything which ought to 



To all Nations, 113 

grow and develop into beauty and heavenly- 
delight, as we have mentioned, grown into a 
tree of knowledge bearing the twelve man- 
ners of fruit and the leaves serving for the 
healing of the nations, which indicates that 
a true Christian is ready at all times to per- 
form divine uses of healing to soul and body 
with all who come near its branches. 

Thus with a true Christian it is plain to see 
that where he is a follower in Christ's foot- 
steps he does not mark destruction in his 
path, but he gleans up all the broken sheaves 
which come in his pathway and under his 
observation, and like the good Samaritan 
binds up their wounds with sweet charity 
and love for the oppressed, the downtrodden 
and intemperate of every grade and kind, and 
tries to water the garden of their hearts with 
prayer and sympathy for their fallen condi- 
tion. 

Thus they try to gather up these broken 

sheaves unto the Master's glory, and to show 

them the way they ought to go which leadeth 
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114 A Centennial Call 

heavenward. Thus, if the erring is willing to 
repent, there are those on earth beneath and 
in heaven above who will help and assist to 
cultivate the sinner^s heart into a delightful 
flower-garden of beautiful and holy scented 
blossoms that at last will culminate into nu- 
tritious fruit to soul and body, not only to 
themselves, but to others. 

This is what a true Christian who is born 
of the Spirit of God will do for you, my 
friend who live in sin and self-gratification, 
because it is to our interest to gather in the 
harvest unto the Husbandman, which is our 
heavenly Father. To him^ and him only, all 
the glory belongs for time and eternity. 



To all Nations. 1 1 5 



CHAPTER X. 

Gathering in the Harvest, 

A ND now, as we are gathering in this har- 
"^ ^ vest and preserving the choice blossoms 
which grow among the wheat, we ^'\}\ first of 
all see what the tare consists of that chokes 
the good seed and hinders its growth and 
development. 

The weeds that grow in the garden of 
your heart are the deadly sins which hinder- 
eth from producing a plentiful harvest of pu- 
rity, holiness, temperance, justice, righteous- 
ness and peace. All which is in opposition to 
this are weeds in the garden of the heart, and 
must be rooted up. 

Take for your associates the pure and holy 
virgins who are waiting on the Lord. Buy 
oil, like they, while it is day ; night cometh, 



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when no man can work. It is well while it 
is day to plant and sow the good seed and 
cultivate daily that which produces a fruitful 
garden. Deck your brow with wisdom's dia- 
dem, that all who hear and see your acts may 
be benefited unto their souls' salvation, 
that when *'the bridegroom cometh" you 
need not say you are not ready. 

For remember he *' cometh as a thief in 
the night ;" and who may abide the day of his 
coming if not ready ? 

It is well to be earnestly concerned in all 
that pertains to a true harvest. We must be 
laborers who bear the burdens of the day, and 
continually walk with Jesus in spotless purity. 
To be the virgins of the Church who have 
adorned themselves in white apparel, and sit 
together with the Lord^ daily administering 
to his household the rich gifts of the treasury 
of heaven. 

Dear readers, I wish now to present to you 
the feast, the passover of our Lord. He wept 
because he knew they could not receive his 



To all Nations, 117 

teaching. And he also knew that to become 
imbued with this doctrine which he preached 
and practiced there would have to be a new 
heart. And only as we can feel and prepare 
to receive this doctrine can we be imbued 
with true understanding how to live and 
breathe in the fullness of God's Spirit. 

Further, to prevent the weeds from grow- 
ing in this garden we must pull them up by- 
prayer and the exercise of daily faith that we 
may be assisted; and as the word teaches, 
** If any man will do his will, he shall know 
of the doctrine.'* 

Thus we find that the doctrine of Jesus 
does not admit any poisonous plants in the 
heart, but as he taught, " Every plant which 
my heavenly Father hath not planted shall 
be rooted up.'' 

Let us therefore implore God, by his Holy 
Spirit, to search our hearts, and pray for 
guidance to be able to keep all the weeds 
out of the garden of our hearts and never 
allo^y thern to grow. Then nothing shall 



ii8 A Centennial Call 

disturb or destroy this beautiful field of holi- 
ness and love. 

My dear friends, to be able to be co-labor- 
ers in this field it would be necessary first of 
all to water the soil with love and sacrifice, 
to make an altar where we render to God the 
first-fruit, and be willing to live so that the 
redeemed can blend with us in our efforts. 
For as we read in the word: "There is joy in 
the presence of the angels of God over one 
sinner that repenteth.'* 

That shows if we go to work in this field to 
bring forth sheaves of pure grain ripe for the 
harvest, we shall cause joy in the heavens. 

These are the two productions which, after 
we have become regenerated ourselves, make 
us feel we must help others to find the way to 
become faithful laborers. 

When we go into this field to work — that 
is, to introduce the same grain to other hearts 
as we have in our own — we vciwst follow and 
do as the Master said, " Watch and pray." 
The Lord heareth prayer and lendeth his ear 



To all Nations, 119 

thereunto. He comes and seeks his beloved 
among the pomegranates, which shows that 
it is among the choice fruit trees in this spirit- 
ual garden of the heart that he seeks for his 
beloved. May we^ then, as we read in Solo- 
mon's Songs, iv. 16, "let my beloved come 
into his garden and eat his pleasant fruit." 

When we can blend in rapport with him, 
then we can say in all our thoughts and walks 
of life, No more do I seek in vain for that 
friend whom my soul longed for. Now I 
have found him, and to my heart he is most 
precious. In his love I dwell, secure from 
every foe, and I hear his voice in the morning 
watch as it answers back to my longing heart. 
I am come by thy side, my heavenly bride. 
His steps I trace in the lowly flower by the 
wayside as it beckons to me that some one 
more wretched than myself passed by and 
needs my sympathy of love and care. 

And thus I feel his breath in the morning 
and evening breeze, cooling my brow with 
the perfume of his breath of love as it leads 



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me to the forsaken, the lowly, the desolate 
widow and orphan in their bereft and lowly- 
abode, with no one to care for their lonely 
and desolate condition. 

Oh yes; I shall ever see the footprints of 
his steps in these walks, and hear the sweet 
whisper of his voice, *' I have overcome the 
world,'' and hear him anxiously waiting for 
the response to his love as he utters these 
words to his bride, the Church: "If ye love 
me, keep my commandments,'' and teach men 
"to observe whatsoever I have commanded 
you." 

" In my Father's house are many mansions." 
Many jewels of the Lord's followers adorn 
these mansions, and many that have lived a 
life of luxury on earth are left out of these 
mansions because they did not follow the Lord, 
the Shepherd of the flock. 

He said, " My sheep hear my voice and 
follow me." He leadeth them by the still 
water-brook, where they shall be watered 
with the pure water of life unto salvation. 



To all Nations, 121 

He leadeth all who will be led into the pure 
and perfect way in which he was the guide. 

*' Seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall 
be opened unto you." Remember he suffered 
for us that we may have life more abundantly. 
His teaching is life and salvation — invigorating 
life, which produces fruit of holiness unto 
God. 

" Peace on earth and good will to men.'' 
77//.? is what the angels proclaimed at the birth 
of Christ, the beloved Son who came to do his 
Father's will, as we find his words in John 
vi. 38 : " For I came down from heaven, not 
to do mine own will, but the will of him that 
sent me." 

Now, we also have a will of our own, but let 
us give up this will ; let it be swallowed up in 
doing the will of our Father, which consists 
in following our Master. 

We have here the key that unlocks the mys- 
teries of the temple. If we are willing to be- 
hold its grandeur, we shall find that much will 

present itself to view which we never thought 
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122 A Centennial Call 

of before. But let us not delay on the way, 
but remember that the precious portals must 
be unbarred, the doors of the heart thrown 
open and the captive of sin walk out. And 
as we make up our minds to behold its hid- 
den beauty we shall succeed in entering in 
through this door, which Christ said, '* Knock, 
and it shall be opened.'* 

There is a contest going on continually in 
the human mind between the thoughts of to- 
day and the future to-morrow, that no one 
can promise themselves to see on this earth. 
Therefore do not delay. Plant and sow the 
right seed in the kingdom of the heart to-day, 
that nations may be fed and have plenty to 
spare. 

In this inner temple we find the King sit- 
ting arrayed in royal apparel, ready to give 
out his laws to his subjects as a kind father 
ministering to his children. And each one 
have their work to do in this vineyard, some 
to plough, others to hoe, some to plant, and 
some to nourish the plants in one way and 



To all Nations, 123 

some in another ; all this is preparatory for 
the harvest. 

Thus the laborers' work is begun. But 
first of all there must be union, or nothing 
can be done — union in the labor, union in 
interest, each one studying the interest of 
the other and promoting each other's wel- 
fare. 

This is to be the laborers' first work in the 
vineyard. For if one ploughs all the roots and 
the old stumps out of the ground, and there 
is no one to hoe and no one to plant, you 
see it will amount to nothing, except we are 
properly stationed in this vineyard, each one 
in their true place. 

We are to give the Husbandman the usury 
of our talents, be they one or many. No 
lazy laborer has any right to go and bury the 
talents entrusted to his care — that is to say, in 
other words, look on the laborers while at 
work, and he himself standing outside at the 
eleventh hour still looking on. Not much 
union in that, to see others toil to keep the 



124 ^ Centennial Call 

weeds of sin away from their own hearts and 
those of others. 

No; this looking on only will not produce 
a large harvest, but to lay hold of the plough, 
ever remembering that before we are aware 
of it the angel reaper whose name is Death 
will come and gather in the harvest of each 
soul unto eternal life. And then, if we have 
not been faithful workers in this harvest-field, 
the vineyard of the Lord, and grafted into 
the true vine Jesus Christ, we are nothing 
but weeds. And when the angel reaper, 
Death, comes, the weeds will have to be sepa- 
rated and burned, but the wheat will be fit 
for use unto the glory of God and adorning 
his heavenly kingdom that shall have no 
end. 

O God ! come soon and make these hearts 
of ours thine abode with thy spirit-essence, 
that we may be prepared for that home where 
we shall dwell in unison with thee. And 
when the soul shall call upon thee for the 
last time in the clay, may it meet thy appro- 



To all Nations, 125 

bation and mercy ! And the clock shall strike 
for the last time, saying, Time is no more. 
Wanderer, come up higher to thy heavenly 
abode. 

May the angels that come in that hour for 
you and me, dear reader, find us fit and pre- 
pared, so as to bring us home to that eter- 
nal rest that is prepared for us of our God, 
where all nations, kindred and tongues that 
have served under the heavenly Regent and 
fulfilled the royal law of heaven shall live 
in unbroken unity, serving the great King of 
heaven and of earth in giving him praise for 
ever for that rest and peace which fills the soul 

with endless joy. 
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